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Murder Party

2007 Directed by Jeremy Saulnier

Everybody Dies...

A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

Chris Sharp Macon Blair Stacy Rock Skei Saulnier Paul Goldblatt William Lacey Alex Barnett Bill Tangradi Beau Sia Michael Clomegah

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Review by Todd Gaines ★★★ 25

With its obvious ode to John Carpenter's Halloween and everything else that's retro slasher horror cool, Murder Party is the no-budget feature film debut from director Jeremy Saulnier, who took the indie world by storm in 2014 and opened a lot of mainstream eyes with his breakout hit Blue Ruin. While this comically darkly horrific tale about a guy who gets invited to a party you should never RSVP for is no Blue Ruin, it's a hilarious beginning for a director who will only get better with each movie. Krazy Kitty. Subway rap. The most bootleg Halloween costume in cinematic history. Never play with fire. Badass beards own mutton chops any day of the week. Baseball Furies' benchwarmer. Preservatives, can…
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★★½ 39

Shortly after Murder Party was released, a friend of mine suggested it and I promised her that I would watch it, well, 8 years later is better late than never!
Just yesterday I was talking with GhosTea about the idiotic proclamation that Eli Roth is the new Wes Craven (from an article that was written shortly after Craven's death). It's unnecessary for anyone to fill his shoes, we should be more interested in encouraging filmmakers to leave their own marks on the genre and that is exactly what the director of Murder Party is doing. With this and Blue Ruin under his belt (and his new film Green Room, which I am eagerly anticipating)--Jeremy Saulnier is making waves and leaving…
Review by bree1981 ★★★½ 9

I've finally got round to watching the debut feature from director Jeremy Saulnier and while it was shot on a low budget and is fairly rough around the edge's, it's also extremely funny in places and shows a lot of promise. The kind of film where a lot of ideas have been thrown into the mix and while not all of them work, the success rate is pretty good.
Set in NYC during Halloween, the film stars Chris Sharp as Chris, a loner civil servant who lives alone with his cat Sir Lancelot. As he heads home on Halloween after stopping off at the video store for some horror films to help pass the night, he stumbles over a small…
Review by matt lynch ★★★

This is why nobody likes art students.
Review by Wood ★★★★

This movie is good because art students deserve to be brutally murdered while high on crank.
Everybody dies, but death is best when Jeremy Saulnier is at the helm.
Review by LeSchroeck ★★★ 2

Fühlte sich für mich und ob seiner Laufzeit ein wenig länger an, als er musste. Entschädigt aber mit einem doch recht saftigen Finale, bei dem auch schon mal eine Kettensäge durchs Gesicht gezogen wird. Letzteres ist insofern schon ein wenig lustig, wenn man sich die weiteren Werke Saulniers ansieht, die mit ihrer Gewalt so wohl dosiert umgehen und eben deshalb so viel schmerzvoller wirken. Als noch etwas ungelenkes, aber durchaus versiertes Frühwerk und Kammerspiel-mit-Kunstblut-Koks-und-Medium-Kunstsatire-Happen für zwischendurch: ok. Allzu viel mehr sollte man aber nicht erwarten.

Recent reviews

Review by stefania ★★★

With murder party you could tell there was real talent behind making it. It was shot with essentially no money or outside support besides its cast and crew (and the crew was pretty much the entire cast so). It could’ve easily been straight garbage, but it wasn’t and I genuinely enjoyed the movie. It also makes perfect sense that the director went on to make green room, I feel like murder party was a good warm up to that.
Review by ashofhousewares ★★★★

Really funny. Saulnier lucked out that all of his high school buddies turned out to be fantastic character actors.
Review by William Peter ★★★½

Corded electric chainsaw vibes
Review by Benny Kohzer ★½

Klassischer Erstlingsfilm. Kriegt seine Geschichte nicht wirklich zu packen und ist eher unappetitlich.
Review by Tiff ½

this movie has a lot of problems. the whole thing is a problem.
Review by More_Badass ★★★

I love Blue Ruin and Green Room, but can we get some of this Saulnier again? The one that combines the grimy grungy atmosphere and messed-up violence of those movies with an irreverent, bizarre, rollicking comedy of a clusterfuck? What a fun concept: the most literal murder party, art cult shenanigans, a loser trapped in a very bad situation, and the kind of gory mayhem that harkens back to early Peter Jackson splatstick.
Review by Dale ★★★½

A nice throwback to horror movies of the 70's and 80's. Jeremy Saulnier is very much wearing his influences on his sleeves with odes to Raimi, Carpenter and Hooper with a little dash of the Coens. Much of the skill shown in Blue Ruin and Green Room is very much on display here in spite of the obvious low budget and middling actors (apart from Macon Blair, who is awesome in this.) Not a home run but definately an early sign of what Saulnier was capable of. A fun time.
Review by Madi Norwood ★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

EVERYBODY DIES...
This film was definitely more comedy than horror to me. I love that Sky dies and they just seem to forget about it as quickly as it happened. The acid, or rather vinegar as it turned out, showed just how badly they all are at actually being murderers. The ending kinda won it over for me, with his cat finally giving up the chair.
Review by Klokslag 12

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